The Red Raven Art Company and the Carlson Cultural Trust

The Carlson Cultural Trust is dedicated to furthering C.X. Carlson’s vision of supporting the arts in the community. One of the chief ways that the Trust accomplishes this is to discover and support young emerging artists and any emerging endeavors that hold promise of artistic enrichment of our community.

The Red Raven Art Company has also embraced this same philosophy and has dedicated itself to create a showcase for young emerging artists as well as some of the finest established artists in the area. Inside the Red Raven Art Company an exhibition space has been dedicated to exhibit only emerging artists who are art students or who are showing for the first time in the community. The Red Raven Art Company does not take any commission from the emerging artist sales. Our goal is to help these young artists learn how to show their art. We help them with framing, pricing, and hanging their art. We give them an opening reception and market their art. We feel this is in keeping with both the Carlson Cultural Trust and the Red Raven Art Company’s Mission Statements.

In 2008 the Red Raven Art Company will be establishing new programs that will further engage young, emerging artists with the ideals of the Cultural Trust. We are establishing live artists in schools program which will make our artists available to school programs in the area in hopes that our expertise will help young students become aware of the art world and its possibilities. The Red Raven Art Company will be establishing a connection with the Carlson Summer Arts Program to provide the students with an experience of visiting various art galleries in the city of Lancaster. Our artists will also be available to demonstrate or talk to their classes. These are just two programs that allow us to connect to and help develop young emerging artists.

We sincerely thank the C.X. Carlson Cultural Trust for the help it has given us to allow us to follow this dream. Through its financial help we can assist emerging artists on their way to a professional career.